Just as a last note, about the smoking=OTD, don’t equate the rabbonim and gedolim you know with a bochur your age. In the last several years, the rabbonim have come out very strongly about a bochur not starting to smoke. Now that we know how unhealthy it is to smoke, the best thing is not to start and then you won’t know the nisayon of trying to quit. They have not come out with a psak that it is ossur to smoke because they realize that the tzibbur would not be able to stand to such a psak and then people would be oiver on their psak but have a tremendously hard time stopping.
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